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'''Prescisive abstraction''' or '''prescision''', variously spelled as '''precisive abstraction''' or '''prescission''', is a formal operation that marks, selects, or singles out one feature of a concrete experience to the disregard of others.

The above definition is adapted from the one given by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] (CP&nbsp;4.235, &ldquo;[[The Simplest Mathematics]]&rdquo; (1902), in ''Collected Papers'', CP&nbsp;4.227&ndash;393).

==References==

* [[Charles Sanders Peirce|Peirce, C.S.]], ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1&ndash;6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7&ndash;8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931&ndash;1935, 1958.

==See also==

* [[Charles Sanders Peirce]]
* [[Hypostatic abstraction]]
* [[Hypostatic object]]

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